skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wet streets don’t cause rain (at least not as directly as the correlated observation suggests).

If government benefits are set at a level higher than the prevailing market-clearing wage, perhaps the benefit level should be reduced, perhaps the minimum wage should be raised, or perhaps that Walmart should close its doors, which surely would increase rather than decrease government benefit expenditures.

Wishing that there were more high-paying jobs than currently are able to be supported in a local economy rarely works.
Building the same app in Gleam and JavaScript
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> All-in-one PCB: Doesn’t need any 3D printed parts or such

I actually am fine 3D printing and laser cutting stuff at home but I don't have the stuff to make a PCB and don't have the hand skills to do anything more than through-hole soldering.
I read it as “omega-bar.”
From what I can see, LLMs default to being sychophants; acting as if a sychophant was neutral is entirely compatible with the cognitive bias you describe.
At the start, isn't this a bit like asking how people navigate cities they live in without constantly checking a map? The various strategies different people have will be remarkably varied. And there will be blind sides for many people. Hidden paths that some people know and always use, as well as parking spots that some people always try to get.

Moving beyond that, it isn't like LSP originated the "go-to-definition" feature. Indeed, this is one of the things many of us like about Emacs. You can literally jump to the definition of most any function currently in use by the environment. Can even edit it and have that edit immediately open.

But, moving back to my original line. The answer is people work in different ways. Is why some folks get really good at typing on a keyboard. Most people probably are not fast typists. But that doesn't necessarily mean the advantage a fast typists has will be realized in any actual gains.
If we speak about FP64, are your loads more like fluid dynamics than ML training?
They are literally fostering Linux games by selling and endorsing a platform where those games would be native as well as having native releases of their own games.
They aren't gonna force any third-party devs to do the same, but they're showing that there is a market while also growing it.
So 10 small businesses what does that support? 10-20 families?
Exactly this. The last of my projects recently moved off of RHEL7, and I am ecstatic that I have a new enough version of vim to use LSP everywhere. I know how to navigate code and documentation manually. I know how to cobble together a poor man's version with ctags and scripts. And it is all a huge waste of time. I'm using an editor that is famed for letting you do everything with the keyboard more efficiently than you could with a mouse. That encourages you to navigate using hjkl for the slight speed improvement over moving your hand to the arrow keys. That has all sorts of ways to perform bulk editing actions faster than manually, and lets you write macros when that isn't fast enough. And yet having keyboard shortcuts that speed up code navigation that I am doing constantly is somehow a bad thing that I should eschew to build character? Forget that!
There is the very real possibility that automation masks complexity, not reduce it. And that’s what he’s saying.
Ha ha, so Walmart made your neighboring communities poorer.
Getting a chance to work on this unique device is probably its own reward for them.
I am not a computer scientist but I acknowledge Dijkstra is an honored name in that field. Yet for his shots against academia and industry, he signed it 'prof. dr.' and 'Burroughs Fellow.'
Some Bitwarden users are not enjoying the new UI/UX
https://archive.is/4ZOzU
> Free trade is just one aspect of a free market.

This is wildly misleading. Free trade in the 21st century generally refers to trade across national boundaries. Nations represent markets that are not subject to the same basic conditions as each other. Moreover, free trade (the international kind) almost always seems to involve a lack of restriction on the movement of goods, capital and profit, but rarely allows labor the same benefit.

The 21st century version of "free trade" is about expanding the scope and scale of capital markets and the movement of goods and profits across national (and thus market-jurisdictional and -conditional) boundaries. It has almost nothing to with the "old" notion of free trade within a given market.
I'm not even sure that the goal of Artificial Life is actually "life", although that may be the AGI equivalent of ALife -- AGL or "Artificial General Life"?. In practice I think the discipline is much closer to the current LLM hype around "Agentic AI", but with more of a focus around the environment in which the agents are situated and the interactions between communities of agents.

Much like the term "Artificial Intelligence", the term ALife is somewhat misleading in terms of the actual discipline.

The overlap between "agentic AI" and ALife is so strong it's amazing to me that there is so little discussion between the fields. In fact it's closer to borderline disdain!
It potentially makes sense because Walmart employees are also part of the community, and Walmart doesn't pay very much. It also won't employ as many people as all the stores it displaces did.

Additionally, Walmart has extremely well-established multinational supply chains, and probably won't need to source much of its stock from the local community. If they do need to buy anything locally, they can pay absolutely rock-bottom prices once they've pushed out competitors and they are the only buyer.

If you shop at Walmart but otherwise have no other exposure to the retail sector, then as an individual you are probably financially better off. But looking at a community as a whole, the negative effects on retail employees and local suppliers apparently outweigh these individual gains.
I keep track of everything i do in excel privately too. I have a log like that since my first job, dating back a dozen years.

I use some basic conditional formatting to highlight today's tasks. I write down everything I do. Small assists and unplanned work are added after the fact. Each row had a do date, a project tag, and notes such as reminders of who to contact about it.

This helps me be extremely organized and not forgetting any tasks even down the road. I also keep track of pet projects and identify good times to work on those. Also made me way better at guesstimating how long something will take and spread out workload from upcoming busy periods more.

This has made it trivial for me to prepare weekly stand ups, quarterly business reports and yearly reviews.
The only downside is I can't keep it up when I'm really overworked. Those periods stand out as several week gaps in the task tracker. I just lose the granularity but i still know which project was problematic using high level roadmaps and notes from retros/5 whys - so i can add a basic note for the period about what projects i was working on at the time.
I have a simplified changelog like that for personal projects as well.
Most people will read the conclusions from this research and believe we’d all be better off without Walmart. The question really is whether you think we’d be better off getting rid of all big corporations and reverting to a much much smaller economy with only mom and pop shops. It’d be a world where businesses have no economies of scale. As a result, would you be ok with a country of significantly less consumption of everything and significantly fewer conveniences (ie free overnight shipping)? I mean electronics, food, clothing, and everything else you buy today sold by Amazon, Target, Walmart, etc. I don’t have a very strong stance either way on this, but that’s the reality you have to be ok with if you believe big corporations are bad.
You could tell it about any efficient business. If there's no Wallmart in town and all that profit goes to small store owners then everytime they shop outside of town or go on a vacation they "suck" the profit out of the town.

Each time a customer needs to travel to big city or order remotely because town shops don't carry what they need they suck profit out of town.

If Wallmart can come to town and employ enough people it might help keep profit in town rather than suck it out.
I don't recall the author, but the phrase comes to mind - "like a vampire night watchman protecting the world's last blood bank".
Don't see why it wouldn't work, as UEFI is basically a hard requirement for running Windows. With UEFI support, there's a lot of functionality that's assumed to be there (e.g. basic graphics) that the question becomes "is this actually good?" rather than "can this work?".
We really need a competitor(s- ideally) to CF because it’s heavily centralising the internet and this highlights exactly why that is a problem.
Consumers want to eat cake and lose weight.

I think "the tragedy of the commons" isn't universal. It's an argument for enclosure. But the commons can be run over by people who don't believe in communal good and instead want to be doing the enclosure.
The article says Cloudflare has tried to geoblock just certain IPs in Italy but what if Cloudflare tells Italy to stuff it and just withdraws from providing services to the country entirely?
Societies basic entry barrier: easy enough to make sure the dumb person who hasn't achieved anything in life can't do it but not relevant who is smart enough to make it in society who circumvents it if they want.

It's the same with plenty of other things.
&str doesn’t mean stack-allocated. It’s just a pointer [0] (and a len) to a section of memory that’s (required to be) legal utf-8.

A &str can point at stack memory or heap memory (usually the latter, since it’s common for them to point to a String, which allocate on the heap), or static memory.

But yeah, String keeps things simple, and when in doubt just use it… but if you want to understand it more, it’s better to think of who “owns” the data.

Take a String when you need to build something that needs to own it, like if you’re building a struct out of them, or store them in a hash map or something. Because maybe a caller already “owns” the string and is trying to hand over ownership, and you can avoid the clone if it’s just passed by move.

If you’re only using the string long enough to read it and do something based on it (but don’t want to own it), take a &str, and a caller can be flexible of how it produces that (a &'static str, a String ref, a substring, etc.)

The example that always works for me as a way to remember is to think of HashMap.

HashMap.get takes a reference for the key (analogous to &str), because it’s only using your reference long enough to compare to its keys and see which one matches.

HashMap.insert takes a value for the key (analogous to String) because it needs to own the key and store it in the table.

HashMap.insert could take a reference, but then it’d have to clone it, which means you’d miss out on the opportunity to more cheaply move the key (which is a simple memcpy) instead of calling clone() (which often does more calls to clone and can be complicated)… and only would support clone able keys.

[0] yeah yeah, a reference, not a pointer, but the point is it “points to” a place in memory, which may be heap, stack, static, anything.
Are you me?

Growing up, the nearest Walmart launched about 17 miles south of the town I lived in, and we slowly saw a drop in stores locally. Then the interstate was completed about 5 miles west of our town, then all the "tourist" traffic bypassed our town.

There is basically nothing left of my little hometown anymore.
Before I go into the article. I think the front page algorithm is getting silly.

>198 points by YetAnotherNick 9 hours ago | 101 comments

This is currently at 159 on page 6. I left home and thought I should come back and read it on HN. The points and comments ratio are no way over the top. But it seems to be dropping fast on front page.

This is also on Classic currently at 151.

It doesn't make any sense.
Haha, imagine is Sega would pull off what Apple did in the 00's... Both Sony and Nintendo would be penny stocks by the turn of the decade.

Of course that would also need something other than saying "we are not a retro company, we just exclusively use our 35 years old franchises in the name of modernity"
The Day After Trinity (1981) [video]
The way to increase one's pay is to increase one's productivity.

If your productivity is producing $100 in value for $10 in pay, other businesses will line up to offer you more money.

If your productivity is $9, expect to get laid off.

The Law of Supply and Demand is in effect, as always.
No surprise with this, I wonder how long before this type of blocking is applied to all sites. That is what happens when large sites depend upon large companies like cloudflare.

Already some sites are blocking people that use VPNs, I could also see this expanding as time goes on.
> It turns out the way that Rust “wants” to be written is overall a pretty good way for you to organize the relationships between parts of a program

That's what it promised not to do, though! Zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost when they force you into a particular design. Several of the cases in the linked article involve actual runtime and code size overhead vs. the obvious legacy/unchecked idioms.
I think the problem isn't that the forced changes are bad, it's that they're lumpy. If you're doing incremental development, you want to be able to to quickly make a long sequence of small changes. If some of those changes randomly require you to turn your program inside-out, then incremental development becomes painful.

Some people say that after a while, they learn how to structure their program from the start so that these changes do not become necessary. But that is also partly giving up incremental development.
"Elroy was here"
OpenAI's also in the position of having to compete against other LLM trainers - including the open-weights Llama models and their community derivatives, which have been able to do extremely well with a tiny fraction of OpenAI's resources - and to justify their astronomical valuation. The economic incentive to cheat is extreme; I think that cheating has to be the default presumption.
> Investment of cash without profits to make those investments is still a burn…

there was, though? That's why net income averaged zero, and cash on hand is flat the last 4 years. He didn't run Intel at a loss.
I think “alignment faking” is way too generous for what is happening in these “tests”. The program spits out text based on text. If you provide it text encouraging it to spit out a certain kind of “deceptive” text, then append that text and ask it for more text, you’ll find that you get a “deceptive” result in keeping with what you appended. But this is all the experimenter’s doing, not the model. It’s like a ventriloquist publishing a paper about how his dummy lies.

What is not in evidence:

- any kind of introspection on the model’s part

- a plausible mechanism by which the model can distinguish between training and real world use without the experimenter making it explicit

- any aspect of this dynamic that is due to the model rather than the framework of scratch pads and prompts built around it
Thank you. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills because I (mostly) hate autocomplete; it mostly just gets in my way. I do almost everything in Sublime Text with very few plug-ins. At the same time everyone around me is using the latest VS Code and going on and on about how great it is when you just hit tab and it writes the code for you. It makes me feel like I’m wrong in some way.
I hadnt realized they changed it in 2021, but it still has very explicit rules regarding people and non-participants --

- does not operate over non-participants who are not under a covered structure or in a stationary covered vehicle;

- will pose no undue hazard to other aircraft, people, or property in the event of a loss of control of the aircraft for any reason

The lowest category has this requirement too: Contain no exposed rotating parts that would cause lacerations

https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/operations_over...
If your "business" cannot pay a person 3x [0] the going rate for an appropriate rental property in the market where it operates, then it has no reason to exist other than to extract profit from the labor of the people you hire.

Minimum wage laws would not stop you from selling your services as a programmer at any rate you want to.

[0] and yes, current minimum wages in most places in the US are actually far below even this threshold.
Qwen QVQ: First open source 'thinking' vision model.
These anthropomorphizations of LLMs are unhelpful in helping people understand what’s going on.

LLMs aren’t “pretending” to do anything, they don’t “know” anything.

Your AI is nothing but a blackbox of math and the inputs you’re providing are creating outputs you don’t want.
It should be easier now with const generics, I know the popular C++ library looks like Value<Unit, T, L, M, ...> where the letters are numbers representing the dimension of time, length, mass, etc. So m/s^2 would always be Value<f64, -2, 1, 0, ...>. By keeping it normalized you don't need Equivalent or whatever
People do it all the time. People wrote the training material too.

The problem of alignment, even semantic correctness, is hairy enough in the real world, and it’s unclear whether forcing it on an AI matrix multiplying system should be easier or harder.

I suspect easier to set up and execute, but harder in that it’s also a stress test that will really hit corner cases like this.
To be clear I did not make CrossHair.

I was also looking into it to turn normal python functions into some kind of constraints. But as you point out in your article it cannot really work through python imperative statements like conditions and loops, so you either need to find a way to cover all code paths, or only use a subset of Python (like Z3 does to some degree I believe). I still need to try it out further.

For your proof assistant it seems you could indeed use it if you limit yourself to Python expressions. Interesting stuff!
Cerebrum: Simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks
But why now, and not like 5 years ago? That’s the weirdness I don’t understand. Is it just very loud people had a bunch of kids and trying to push the same on others? Trying to change the culture from the start? “Meaning of life” is like the oldest question that has ever existed. Both people with and without children have pondered about it for eternity. It just looks funny when you see a sudden shift in the discourse.
AI will pretend to not be evil, while secretly using every opportunity to destroy humanity.
While I do not support piracy, I am worried that the internet will get less and less free as tactics like this become more common.
One could look at how colonial America lived.

I once toured Washington's home Mount Vernon. He was probably the richest man in America at the time.

I wouldn't prefer his lifestyle, at all.
Composable single-purpose modules that communicate over a standard interface can be more easily achieved without involving a network and the complexity that comes with it.
Let's hope this expands to other states.
I'm always surprised at articles like this that point out every possible energy solution except nuclear. TerraPower, NuScale Power, X-energy, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, EDF Energ, etc. It's like these companies will never pass some impossible test based on fear from 1970s tech.
Show HN: Learn Japanese Kanji, no silly mnemonics
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> So when it knew it was monitored, it sometimes responded as if it was the other way.

> The AI wanted to be one way.

This desire to anthropomorphize LLMs and imbue them with desires is sick.

I'm going to start calling these people animists. They're looking for something that isn't there.
You’re fortunate. At least in a lot of the US people live insular lives and only rarely run into people at the grocery store.
Ship of Theseus and Chassis Number
Practical solution for a Ship of Theseus

Long time ago I had an interview for an SWE position in some automotive startup and of the questions was something like “How would you distinquish two cars?”. I said I would use ID but I saw that interviewer was not satisfied with my answer.

Later, after investigation, I find out that chassis number or VIN (Vehicle identification number) is used to uniqely identify car or distinquish two cars from each other.

So you can basically replace all parts except chassis and it will be considered the same car. If you replace chassis, then it is not the same car anymore.

Try to replace it and if police stops you they will see on your vehicle license or Vehicle Registration(in USA) that VIN on the chassis does not match the one in the document. So you will be at risk of being accused of driving stolen vehicle.

This is just one example how people can find practical solutions for age old philosophical problems.
Oh? Perhaps I misunderstood when you said "infrequent trading".

I'm also wondering why I'm getting downvoted but this is the Internet for me :)
Sounds like they are perfectly aligned for the C-suite and the board.
Not really my thing--but maybe at some point--but there are a ton of volunteer docent tasks at museums, ushering/other tasks at local theater groups, etc. Should probably do more along those lines.
Why do you try to mandate how others experience the world?
Way more. First, a small business is not just a "family". Their employees are other members in the community. And there's the cascading effect because those folks are using their pay to go to local restaurants, the bowling alley, the hairdressers. When business like WM push prices down and make it so other businesses aren't able to compete, all you get locally is the ~minimum wage salary and the tax revenue. This might be "more efficient", but it comes at a cost to community.
5 node in 4 years. And we are just approaching end of 4 soon with 18A coming up. The first 4 node are already delivered on schedule. It remains to be seen where 18A will end up. But it isn't far off.

So I have no idea where "he didn't do it in time" came from.
I like your argument but I often wonder if my mind is nothing but a black box of math and the inputs I’m providing are creating outputs I don’t want.
Trouble is this could easily lead to CDN, IP and proxy manipulation by state actors for repressive ends.
What jobs? Rural and suburban communities not linked to an urban area have less and less every year. The cities are growing and towns are dying: there are very few new jobs, much less “more productive” ones.

Think on it for a second: if you could work a better job than small grocery store employee, wouldn’t you have already? Why would you wait on walmart to exist?
The article says "first" in the first paregraph, so don't blame only the editor.

@GP: Have you used experimental values or values calculated theoreticaly with DFT or something?
It might be pretty on the nose but I don't see why that would make them stop talking to him. Wouldn't that be the reason they'd approve a corporate interview in the first place? I doubt they'd do it for no reason
I invite you to discuss what parts of the article you believe recontextualizes GP’s comment instead of dismissing it outright.
Background on the Tokyo government’s digital twin program, including sourcing and maintenance efforts

https://github.com/tokyo-digitaltwin/roadmap_v1.0/blob/main/...